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An empty table for one sat at the front of the VFW hall, a symbol of the prisoners of war who never made it home.

Speaking beside that table, Dick Grube pledged to keep the search alive for Vietnam War servicemen and women still unaccounted for. "We will not rest," said Grube, past commander of Perinton Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8495. "We will not sleep."

The VFW post held a brief, somber ceremony on Monday to mark the 41st anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended the United States' role in the Vietnam War. U.S. combat troops left two months later, ...